There is little doubt…that Curtis Scherr intended to inflict severe emotional distress on his daughter-in-law and succeeded in doing so. - Richard Posner
Not too many good links this week; the World Cup and hearings on the new Canadian Prohibition dominated my timeline, so if there were any other good links I missed them. Most of these items are wholly absurd; some are funny-absurd and some horrifying-absurd, but most point to a world gone mad, especially where politics is concerned. Everything down to the first video is from Grace; the links between the videos are from Jasper Gregory (“war”), Michael Whiteacre (“LOL”), Popehat (“bureaucracy” and “trademark”), and Mike Riggs (“horrible”); and the second video (via Brooke Magnanti) is the world’s oldest surviving song, which may help you relax after all the brain-strain produced by the other items.
- Cop arrests man for refusing to let his house catch fire.
- “Kafkaesque” is too weak a word.
- I hate it when this happens.
- War is hard!
- I genuinely LOLed.
- Bureaucracy at work.
- The absurdity of modern trademark law.
- Proof that government will ban literally anything it can.
- One of the most horrible excuses for a human being ever.
From the Archives
- A thorough debunking of the oft-repeated claim that “human trafficking is the third most profitable crime”.
- The government just can’t resist trying to control anything involving sex.
- The ridiculous & harmful consequences of laws against consensual acts.
- Government “study” made to justify sexist “trafficking” preconceptions.
- Reinforcing whorearchy is not the way to win right to employ whores.
- How to support decriminalization without revealing personal interest.
- Wealthy control freak wants everyone on the “sex offender” registry.
- Politicians are usually forgiven; those whose lives they destroy, not.
- Other things FBI agents believe in besides rampant “sex trafficking”.
- Irish nuns abducted children from mothers, sold them to Americans.
- Australian prohibitionists say that poor Asian women are all stupid.
- Cops, thieves, Popeye, sociopaths, Florida, prisoners and slinkies.
- US blocks sex workers from conference, so they set up their own.
- No, a camera doesn’t magically protect sex workers from arrest.
- More sophomoric “humor” from sadistic New York “authorities”.
- Yet another case of government interference magnifying harm.
- Swedish feminist wants ban on drinking alcohol near children.
- At least Argentinian “survivors” don’t support criminalization.
- Swedish prostitutes win the right to claim social benefits.
- Shamans punish teen girl for possession of taboo object.
- Mainstream media begins to discover Dr. Laura Agustín.
- The true story of a Nigerian sex worker in Amsterdam.
- When governments ban things, they magically vanish!
- Interview with an escort arrested for looking young.
- The beginning of my guest blogging on The Agitator.
- An anti-criminalization article in The National Review.
- Chinese “authorities” evict activist from her home.
- Why I have no sympathy for dangerous enemies.
- French sex workers protest the Swedish model.
- Could bitcoin help in the Greek monetary crisis?
- New York’s most famous madam of the 1920s.
- Five whores protest their pimps’ prosecution.
- The outing of prohibitionist shill “Stella Marr”.
- Using the passive voice to shift the blame.
- My second and third anniversary columns.
- Somalia sets age of majority to 40.
- Another week, another rapist cop.
- R.I.P. Petite Jasmine.
- A mysterious gift.
